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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do William and Rosie often go?
(a) The opera.
(b) To other friends's homes for whist.
(c) Music halls or theaters.
(d) The symphony.

2. What does the Bear and Key rent William?
(a) A dilapidated Daimler.
(b) An old Bentley.
(c) An old Rolls.
(d) A bicycle.

3. What does Rosie say will happen in a hundred years?
(a) People will live the way they wish.
(b) Women will be as free as men to enjoy sex without censure.
(c) They will all be dead and none of this will matter.
(d) People will revere William as a poet.

4. Who is Mrs. Hudson?
(a) William's first landlady.
(b) A friend of Ted and Rosie.
(c) The next-door neighbor where Williams lives.
(d) A friend of his aunt and uncle.

5. How does William remember Rosie?
(a) Alive and passionate.
(b) Only vaguely.
(c) As a madonna figure.
(d) As fresh and innocent.

6. Who does Rosie say is always the perfect gentleman?
(a) Kear.
(b) Ted.
(c) William.
(d) Kemp.

7. What happens between Ted and his nurse?
(a) They marry.
(b) They collaborate on a new book.
(c) She ends up introducing him to his next wife.
(d) She ends up suing him.

8. What do William and Rosie do for the next year or more?
(a) Write a play together.
(b) Stop in his rooms whenever they go out together.
(c) Sing duets together.
(d) Write poetry together.

9. With what motif is William's old room decorated?
(a) Sports.
(b) Literature.
(c) Religious.
(d) No particular motif.

10. How does William once describe Rosie?
(a) Seductive.
(b) Knowledgeable in the ways of the world.
(c) Maligned unjustly.
(d) Virginal and enchanting.

11. What does William look forward to writing?
(a) Political essays.
(b) Nothing; he is tired of writing.
(c) Books and plays.
(d) Poetry.

12. With whom does Ted spend most of his time at the Saturday gatherings?
(a) With Isabel.
(b) With Kear and Kemp.
(c) With older and more important guests than William.
(d) With Rosie.

13. What does William discover that surprises him?
(a) That Ted is the author of 20 books and on the brink of discovery.
(b) That Rosie if pregnant.
(c) That Ted and Rosie are not actually married legally.
(d) That Roy is the same age as William and has already published several books.

14. What do Roy and Amy deplore?
(a) That Ted had not met Amy sooner.
(b) How common Rosie must have been.
(c) That William's letters are all about Rosie.
(d) That Ted treated Rosie so poorly.

15. How does Rosie keep in touch with Blackstable?
(a) Through the curate.
(b) Through biweekly visits to her mother in Haversham.
(c) Through Mrs. Ashenben.
(d) Through Mary-Ann.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who keeps Rosie occupied for a couple weeks?

2. Who is Lionel Hillier?

3. What does Rosie do as Ted writes at night?

4. What does Ted's study smell like?

5. What surname does Rosie and George take when they come to America?

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